St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-30
MUSIC IN MINNEAPOLIS.

The members of the Amateur Opera
company held an informal meeting Fri
day evening, but, as there was so much
talking done, business could not be at
| tended to. The next meeting will he
| Thursday evening of this week in Dyer's
hall. A large attendance is requested
and also that all participants VII
! with the good intention OF SinglngHn
stead of talking. Prof. Willard Paser
will be musical director, the saasaa as
last year, and w. A. Eichman will nc
! as stage manager, a position he is pSeu-
| liarly suited fOr,as he has been for MANY
years connected with the Boston Ideals,
| but is now citizen of this city.
The scheme gotten up by M. l.. Quinn
! for the practice and Improvement In
operate singing is shaping itself gradu-
ally into practical, permanent lnStltu-
ton. There have been two well at
tended meetings, at the latter of
which DR.. Mcdonald was made
president; Mrs. DR.. Armstrong, Sec
rotary, and Mrs. Howard, treasurer.
Furthermore, committee was APP
pointed to draw up constitution and
bylaws and was composed of DR.. Mac
Donald, Mr.. Morphey, DR.. Moore and
Prof. Nj. S. Quinn. The meeting last
night was called to give the OrganiZa-
ton name and finally arrange the pre-
liminarieS of work.
Prof. Quinn is devOting good deal of
attention at present to preparing pupils
for the lyric stage and has numerous
students from neighboring states under
his tutelage with that object in views
The first home concert by the Lach-
! mund Juvenile string orchestra will be
| given at the residence of the Misses Nc
GregOr in two weeks time.
A sacred concert will be held i'll the
First Baptist church this afternoon at
$50 O'Clock
The concert to be given "Wednesday
evening under the auspices of the ladies
of Calvary Baptist church, in the new
Eighth ward hall, promises to be a very
enjoyable affair. Willard Patten and
Miss Lucy Williams will render vocal
solos. Carl Lachmund will play piano
solo and his beautiful orchestra of
children will play in their usual Splen-
did manner.
Herr Walter Petzel, of Munich, has
been secured for the Northwestern Con-
seryatory of Music He is master of
the piano, an excellent teacher and a
I composer as well. His duties will COM
mence early in November. His teach
eTS were such men as Rheinberger and
Won BuiOw, and he has been called a
genius by the ableSt judges.
The Musical and Home Journal pub
lished by W. j. Dyer d Bro. every
I month, is out fer November 1t is a
! bright, readable number, containing
short stories, musical anecdotes and
some very pretty music, Christmas
carols, and SO forth.
A pretty piece of new music entitled
Zine International Encampment Grand
| March, by George w. Tersley, is on
sale at Mrs. Penfield'S. 1t is from the
publishing house of Walker, Brown Il
! Co.. Chicago.
The number of music teachers flock
! ing TO Minneapolis is appalling, and
! should they continue to arrive much
longer, there will he more instructors
! than students in the town. Joking
aside, Minneapolis is 0yercrowdcd with
teachers, and people contemplating
| coming here in that line of business
| should think twice before d 0iEes.
The organization TO he Known as the
"Grant! Opera Choral society WILL III
IFS firstsw6rk take up the opera 19beg
| on" of Weber. This las been chosen as
better class of opera than hitherr
knownin the Northwest. The methods
of conducting employed by Prof. Quinn
are original and interesting to solo and
choral singers as well. He. fully. ,ex-
planned the manner of using an flTriSth,
tone and divided the voices into pa.1S
preparatory TO Choral efforts. So